From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T13:54:35+09:00
Subject: Re: removing quotes in a string

Grace Xue wrote:
> Hi, does anyone know of a good way to remove leading and trailing quotes
> (") in a string please?

A nondestructive way (returns a new string):

s = "\"foo bar\nbaz\""
s[/\A"(.*)"\z/m,1]     # => "foo bar\nbaz"

It's elegant, but it may not be the fastest.

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